Douglas said:
>All a male can do when faced by women's poetry
>is apply his criteria for a `good' poem. Whether this is a masculine
>artefact is another matter.
But is this really "all a male can do"? Can he not educate himself about
women's writing? Don't some men read feminist theory, women's history,
women's literary criticism? Maybe not doing so is part of the problem. Who
gets to define the word "good"?
>Women definitely have
>a different agenda from men in their approach to life and their brains
>are constructed differently.
I hope this isn't the old biological determinist thing creeping in again
(pardon me if that's not what you meant!) It certainly wasn't what I was
getting at. Women theorists have had a lot to say on this too.
Tracy.
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